August 2011
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Complete list of the 2011 MTV VMA winners | Hitfix →
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Someday you’ll find someone special again. People who’ve been in love once...
– Nicholas Sparks
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5 Clever Ways To Get A Job Using Social Media →
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fakepilot:
For all you parents out there – do you find this provocative or just cool?
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10 Start-Up Mistakes →
And specifically, overpaying for customers:
knecessaryandproper:
Spending big on advertising may bring in lots of customers, but it’s a money-losing strategy if your company can’t turn those dollars into life-time customer value. A magazine or web site that spends $500 worth of advertising to acquire a customer who pays $20 a month and cancels his or her subscription at the end of the year is...
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness...
– C.S. Lewis
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A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what...
– Madonna
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by...
– Audrey Hepburn
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The Pursuit Of Happiness →
Great INK Talk (sponsored by TED Talks) about happiness and the social media as a tool for achieving it.
Also features a beautiful and moving story that explains the dragonfly effect.
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Working With Lady Gaga to Bridge Music and... →
emergentfutures:
Paul Higgins: It could be that this sort of development and the integration of Twitter into Facebook we are sitting on the peak of FaceBook’s value and popularity. A combination of social operating systems as you have discussed and the fragmentation of social interactions into more specialised systems may mean attention is directed more in those directions. We have limited...
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Talent, plus luck, plus discipline. Those seem to be the 3 things that I think...
– Lorne Michaels
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An interesting mini-doc on some of the basics of retail marketing with examples from shopping centres, supermarkets and Ikea.
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Can Data Save the Studios in the Age of Social... →
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Most companies would love to have rabid fanatic customers like Apple, Harley, or...
– » Your Best Customers Probably Aren’t The Experience is the Product (via soxiam)
Just like you would deal with someone who’s obsessed with you cautiously in real life businesses need to think twice about getting those extreme, fanatic customers. They can boost your rep and image up one minute...
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The Handwriting Is on the Wall →
emergentfutures:
Learning cursive is going the way of the quill pen. It’s only the end of civilization as we know it
Full Story: Wall Street Journal
How can this realistically happen? I mean, yes we’re embracing technology at a very rapid pace but could it surround us to the point of making writing obsolete that quickly? Also doesn’t that doom everyone to be way too dependent on...